The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-06-03
Should Flirts be Encouraeaa9

Should Flirts be Encouraeed9
Henrietta sends this STARTLING \
terogatory home TO this office, inscrib
ed on a Scotch-plaid sheet of fancv
stationery enclosed in a No. 5 fligree-
ornamented envelope, with CUP 4 III.
ting on the safety-valve of a fractured
heart, aid we have no doubt that she IN.
agines her question to be a crusher. Bnt
though staggering somewhat under Tia
weight of the conundrum, we hurl bach
our answer:
Eyes, by all means flirting should 81
encouraged"
We had a young friend once whom
we thought everything OF, and he fell
victim to the wiles of tiirt. He was
a blonde, and she was a blonde. in !
kingdom by the sea-Baltimose, for n.
stance--and the terrible love stroke
which prostrated him left him, to ali
lntents and purposes, mangled, bat
tered wreck CD stormy sea of trouble
He thought all the world of the blonde
and would sit up all night and spin
stories about her, and extol her fasei.
nations, and talk about her eyes. and
lie about her hair, and driyel on con.
corning rosy lips, pearly teeth, match
less form, etc, long after the balmy
goddess of slumber has wooed us to re-
pose and attuned our melodio1s olfac-
tory organs to the music of the spheres.
Our friend ased to beat his landlady
out of board bills, and borrow money
to buy opera tickets for his girl and
taffy on a stick for her little brother. Ii
was the most compete mash we ever
saw, Henrietta, and we have seen quite
large number of this description; but,
compared to this pyrotechnic display,
they were are all tame and second-class
affairs. Well, to make love story in
terestingly short, she bounced him one
evening, and the jig was up. She jilt.
ed, sacked, mittened and fired him out
of her affections, with all the Kissing
velocity of an old shoe brush thrown at
wailing cat. When he came in thar
night to go to bed, he looked like
stricken deer, wounded fawn wrestl-
ing with sciatica. For five long weeks he
raved in delirium. Then he recovered
shook the dust of Baltimore from his
heel taps jumped his board and doe
tors bills, and aimlessly wandered to
Leadvifle, carrying with him our best
suit of clothes, six pairs of cotton socks
and tooth brush.
Well, he was grub-staked by aphilan-
thropist, struck it rich, opened a min
er's supply store, married the daughter
of bonanza king, has two blue-eYed
children and LOVING wife. The
blonde female bursted up all the heart
furniture she came in contact with, re-
fused about th;rty-fye splendid offers,
and retired from the business. She
doesn't draw we'll now. She is faded
and pGssee. She wanes and wobbles
on the down grade. 1t does us bush
ell of good to see her grit her teeth
when the fellows, like the Pharisees,
pass BY on the other side and give her
a wide berth. She is elected-to stay
as home, and bids fair to make as
yinegarry an old spinster as you will
lind in days walk.
Yes, on the whole flirting should be
encouraged, 1t certainly saved our Y
young Leadyille friend from q fate If
almost 100 horrible to mention. And
whenever we see young man strug.
Cling in the gifl-net Of a well-con
structed. athletic firt, we fell like say- 4
ing:
Steady, old boy; you will feel az
the better when you get ost : = rsf''
Syttngs.